Blue Force Gear Quote of the Day: Gun Makers Market to People With ‘Ugly Power Fantasies’

“There’s probably no industry that better epitomizes the way that corporate greed leads to ruined lives than the gun industry. That’s what the Sandy Hook lawsuit is about: The gun industry lobbies for weak restrictions and heavily markets guns to people with ugly power fantasies, which is why mass shootings happen so frequently in our country.” – Amanda Marcotte in CALCULUS: The NRA Spent Thousands to Get Bernie Elected — Then He Voted With Them [at bluenationreview.com]

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I’d kinda like to see that marketing causes mass shootings study. Obviously she is referencing a compelling one or she would not have made such a statement. I know that on those rare occasions that I do catch a glimpse of TV or radio firearms industry ads are all I see and hear.

Socialists claim that all the choices and advertising waste resources. /sarc on/ So Bernie would fix that marketing problem, too. Why do we need to choose between 50,000 different kind of shoes? You want a gun? Here’s your single shot 20 gauge. What more do you need? And since that’s the only one made, we don’t need to advertise to compete. And it’s cheaper this way, cause competition brings out the worst in people which costs hurt feelings. /sarc off/

I can tell you the marketing that causes mass murders. It’s real simple it’s called CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. Them running 50,000 hours of it every time there is a shooting promoting these monsters to celebrity status is why a lot of this happens. Think about how many shootings in theaters made the news before and after Aurora Colorado. You may as well be saying “have a mcmurder kind of day”

Well, I’d call totalitarianism is an ugly power fantasy. It appears the only acceptable ugly power fantasies are one where progressives yield ultimate power and control. No wonder our progressives had to quash the green revolution in Iran (envious of the Mullahs’ power).

+1000! You nailed it. One of the central conceits of the hard left is that their authoritarianism is somehow “rational” while liberty and freedom are somehow irrational. Marx called this “false consciousness” which always reminded me of scene in “Cool Hand Luke” where the warden tells Luke he needs to “get his mind right”. This woman is like that.

The constitution is just a dusty piece of parchment written by a bunch of old rich, racist, bigoted, mysogynist and slave owning white guys. At least, that is how the leftists/statists see it.

Of course, just as in any revolution, the new bosses are usually more tyrannical, lawless and blood thirsty than what was replaced. Hence, the fifty million, and counting, of the murdered unborn; the routine violation of established law and the tyranny of thought control in academia and the press by the politically correct.

I can understand that they dislike any infringement on government power, but I find it interesting that when you listen in to them talking among themselves you don’t hear them pondering how to get around the Constitution, It’s like they don’t even know it exists. I guess they assume that everybody else feels the same way they do except those rubes in flyover country, but they seem completely unaware that they’re outnumbered.

This three-day default proceed, also known as the Charleston loophole, allowed Dylan Roof to obtain a gun. [New York Times, 7/11/15]”

Let’s put this into language a prog can understand: Let’s say that abortions needed government permission to perform. So a woman wants an abortion and she ask the government for permission, but due to bureaucratic delays the permission doesn’t come for ten months. Now, is this an unfortunate delay or an infringement on a perceived right?

The interesting thing about this idea (of corporate greed driving gun-rights legislation) is that even if a major gun-maker wanted to advocate for gun control, the consumers really force their hand. They know that if they step out of line, the backlash from buyers will be swift and severe. Ask S&W. We actually insist that our gun-makers support our political beliefs. It absolutely is a grassroots movement, even when the industry gets involved.

“There’s probably no industry that better epitomizes the way that corporate greed leads to ruined lives …” – Amanda Marcotte

Ms. Marcotte,

I am confused. Are you referring to the “corporate greed” that pays the annual salaries of untold tens of millions of people in our nation? How is a corporation the likes of Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Chase Bank, Coca-cola Products, Gordon Foods, Sysco Foods, Federal Express Shipping, your local heating and cooling contractor, your local taxi service, or your local landscaping company — who provide income for their employees — ruining lives?

Do you want to know what is really ruining lives? It is people like you who never take personal responsibility for your life — who always blame someone or something else for your problems and always look for someone or something else to fix your problems.

And we, as 5 million of people in NRA, paid thousands, (OMG thousands!) to help get Sanders elected. Meanwhile uncle Mike – one guy – paid about $360,000 to keep bunch of crooks from being recalled in Colorado.

So, He-Who-Shall-Remain-Nameless shot up a school because his mother bought guns, because she had an “ugly power fantasy”, which forced her to buy a Bushmaster when Bushmaster’s advertising took advantage of her “ugly power fantasy”??? Damn, lady, you’re snorting stronger stuff than Mayor Berry or President Obama ever used.

Did you know free black men could vote before women (1920). 95 years of equality leads directly to Hillary Clinton and 62 women democrats, a two thirds majority over republican women. For this accomplishment we get murdered unborn sold for body parts and assaults on citizen rights to lawfully protect themselves. Then we must endure the insane logic of women telling us the second amendment is outdated while limiting number of cartridges, and what a rifle should look like. This empowerment then leads to articles pointing out the fact that politicians vote by the amount of coin a lobby group gives. Perhaps she should write an article about Planned Parenthood. The taking of citizens half billion dollars to murder poor black unborn while shuttling millons to democrats. The irony of taking away our right to lawful self defense while feverishly funding the murder of unborn boggles the mind.

She’s a nut who was a part of the Edwards 2008 campaign. If one googles her, one will see her outrageous positions. It’s telling that the Democrats continue to give her a speaking platform, like the website cited in this post, instead of shunning her. On their issues, there is no “extremism.” There is no “too far” in their leftism.

+1. Her statements on the Duke Lacrosse hoax case were so over the top that even the NYT took notice, and led to her purge from the Edwards campaign. Learning absolutely nothing from that experience, she went on to be one of the loudest apologists for the UVA Rolling Stone hoax, again sticking with the narrative long after the hoax had been definitively exposed.
That the media gives her the time of day speaks volumes about the quality of the media.

It is a sad statement that this sort of intellectual laziness can pass for truth and reality. Simple explanations for simple minds, I guess.
The quote reminds me of my ex-wife who “doesn’t believe in guns” – despite the fact that I assured her they were quite real. Wife v2.0, on the other hand, knows to grab bricks of CCI when she sees it for less than $7.00…

Car ads often show cars exceeding the speed limit and doing maneuvers that would get you a hefty fine and/or jail time if performed on a public street. Yet, somehow, most people manage to drive in a fairly reasonable fashion.

My power fantasies aren’t ugly at all. They’re filled with van de Graaff generators and tesla coils doing kinky things to voltage regulators. As power fantasies go, I think they’re the opposite of ugly.

The Clinton Machine is fascinating to watch. Marcotte’s piece forced the gun control issue into a racial issue, and thus how Sanders was doing a poor job on race because of his stance on guns. And this came out just as Bill Clinton was starting to torpedo Hillary’s campaign by arguing with BLM protesters. This piece was a fast pivot.

Cruise around that bluenationreview site. There is a whole lot of extremist wacko progtard delusion there. If not a Klinton site is certainly in the tank fro the witch. Crazy Bernie better stay clear of any parks.

She should realize that concealed carry is all about protecting yourself from the deranged sicko who has forgotten to take his meds and is going on a rampage. People carrying guns for self protection are not riding a power fantasy. They are trying not to be the victim of one.

“There’s probably no industry that better epitomizes the way that corporate greed leads to ruined lives than the gun industry.”

Oh so we’re not going to talk about the medical industry in general and big pharma in particular, directly causing the majority of bankruptcies in this country? The greed of corporate bankers? (remember predatory lending back in the aughts?) How about tobacco? Alcohol? Junk food/soda? How the auto industry made Jaywalking a crime so that people could drive faster? Oil companies? The entire diamond industry?

The original article by Susan Mandrake (or something like that) equates “pure progressivisim” with an anti-gun stance, and that therefore only Clinton is “pure.” Gotcha. Where’d she come up with that nonsense?

And where is all of this gun manufacturing advertising? I am more likely to learn something about a new gun from reading a review than from reading or seeing advertising–which only shows on cable stations you have to pay extra for. The manufacturer’s web sites are hardly advertising, and I go to those to get deets and models, not to be sold.

This woman is as dangerous to free people as the Sandy hook shooter. She will prevent anyone from defending themselves and their loved ones, wherever they may be. Work, home, public transportation etc.

It’s worth pointing out that the whole “gun industry lobby” narrative is basically a red herring. The NRA is by far the largest gun-rights lobby group, and its funding and its clout comes overwhelmingly from individual gun-owning members, not the gun industry. It’s the gun owners lobby, and it hasn’t got a damned thing to do with “corporate greed”.

Yep, I have an “ugly power fantasies” where I can defend myself and loved ones against armed thugs, psychotic mass shooters, terrorists, drug cartels, mobs seeking “social justice,” or a government who finds me objectionable because I might dare challenge tyranny.

Well, first Amanda Marcott is the leading current occupant of the McKinnon / Dworkin wing of a particular kind of bat-guano crazy agenda-mongering. She’s the kind that gives that kind a bad name.

On-point, as if it was needed, 1) You can’t sell things people don’t want to buy, 2) Gun-rights organizations are funded by individuals, 3) If wielding a gun is so dangerous, the power isn’t a fantasy. 3.1) They’re called “equalizers” precisely because having one balances the physical power of a situation. For realz. 4) If whackjobs are so persuadable, maybe we should look to mental health screening, and not so much to guns.

There is, indeed no other industry that better illustrates the damage caused by people making crap up to feed ugly class, group, privilege fantasies. How many lives are ruined because they, for example, face down a robbery, disarmed because of ant-gun delusions?